Robert Coalson worked as a correspondent for RFE/RL from 2002 to 2024.
After a Russian blogger exposed a young Belarusian for playing a disgruntled Ukrainian in a Russian state TV report criticizing Euromaidan, the man came forward and confessed to a "monstrous mistake."
The Russian Public Chamber and other state-connected bodies are holding an online vote to rename nearly 50 regional airports after prominent figures in Russian history.
Young Russians are looking for new ways to get their opposition political message out to wider audiences.
Wolves have been a growing problem in remote parts of Russia's Pskov Oblast. Already this year, dozens of dogs have been killed, and villagers are afraid to leave their homes after dark.
Advocates of a monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the center of Novosibirsk believe they have an ally in the city's communist mayor, while opponents say the proposal is being pushed through without considering the feelings of relatives of his millions of victims.
Margarita Simonyan, chief editor of RT television, and her filmmaker husband have produced a romantic comedy set against the building of the Kerch Strait Bridge in which the main object of adoration is the Russian flag.
Some of the teens who were among the hundreds of detained protesters at demonstrations in September talked to RFE/RL about how the authorities have handled their cases and how they and their parents have been threatened and harassed.
The local FSB museum in the city of Vladimir has organized a billboard campaign celebrating the wartime records of Josef Stalin's notorious secret police -- just in time for Russia's Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.
Newly declassified documents from the KGB archive in Ukraine shed light on how one leg of a 1947 journey to the Soviet Union by U.S. writer John Steinbeck and noted war photojournalist Robert Capa went down.
The U.S. administration has signaled it will withdraw from a key 1987 nuclear-arms treaty with Russia, a dramatic move that many say could leave the world a far more dangerous place. What are U.S. and Russian experts saying about the move?
St. Petersburg's museum of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky is planning to add a modernist wing to mark the novelist's 2021 bicentennial. But some locals worry the stark project will further erode the city's 19th-century charm.
On October 11, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church moved one big step closer toward independence from the Moscow Patriarchate. But the road ahead might be even more daunting.
Hardly a day goes by without some revelation pointing to the nefarious activity and questionable competence of Russia's GRU military intelligence organization.
Moscow is moving to soften penalties for first-time violations of Russia's law on inciting ethnic and religious enmity. But activists say the government still has plenty of tools to keep a lid on political dissent and freedom of expression.
In September 2017, opposition candidates scored surprisingly well in local council elections in Moscow, picking up nearly 20 percent of the 1,502 seats. It was hailed at the time as a sign that President Vladimir Putin was ready to experiment with pluralism. But one year later, those deputies are facing harsh -- and sometimes terrifying -- obstacles.
One Moscow high-school student has gone public about her campus interrogation by antiextremism police -- one of a growing number of cases of police nominally fighting terrorism but in fact pressuring youths for their politics.
A computer-game publisher in the Siberian city of Barnaul is concerned about recent prosecutions on extremism charges of people who posted or liked memes on social media. They are fighting back, one computer game at a time.
With public discontent in Russia running at rarely seen levels because of the government's wildly unpopular pension-reform proposal, officials appear to be managing September 9 local elections carefully.
Activists fear excavation near the scene of Stalin crimes is part of a bid to discredit a prominent historian and rewrite the significance of the Sandarmokh killing ground.
Decades after the end of the Cold War, experts are still debating whether the Soviet Union actually stored live nuclear warheads in three top-secret bunkers in Czechoslovakia. We visited the decaying sites to see what remains of this terrifying legacy.
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